"You'll Figure It Out" April 4, 2025

[kgiano]

Ashore
2021 Hill Family Estate Briarstone Merlot, from Atlas Peak at 1,200' elevation. "The 2021 Briarstone Merlot offer aromas of huckleberry, sandalwood, white sage, spicy plum and vanilla. The graceful entry and long, elegant full-bodied palate shows boysenberry and
raspberry flavors. This mountain Merlot has a long, elegant finish and long life ahead of
itself, that will only get better with age. "

[doc1388]

Ashore! Gonna drink a fifth of vodka ...

[Bob cruise director]

Good evening muggles

We close the books with 239 on the shore.

And it is not too late to try the SSS Near-Perfect Pitch by @Clark E. Tripe. Use this link Near-Perfect Pitch link

Even if you don't do the meta, go to the site to see what Clark has been up to.

[WSJosh]

Ashore and enjoying a bock beer before tomorrow’s chaos

[DannyWalter]

Ashore! Was very busy with markets in a tizzy, looks like Monday will be a fun day too.

Never give up. Never surrender!

[eagle1279]

Ashore, once again indebted to the interwebs.

[woozy]

Oh.. I just decided to google something....

I think.... well, not everyone's repetoire is the same

[Hank37]

Everything Basil Hayden creates is really fine - have to give the dark Rye a try.

[PQ63]

Ashore.

[steph]

I might be the last one to shore! But I made it with a few minutes to spare! Spent the weekend in Lafayette at a tennis tournament and made it to the finals!!

[hcbirker]

[woozy]

So about that title.... If you google "You'll figure it out 8 mile" you will find that it is a line that eminem's character says. Which I you had seen the movie you might remember. But as I only know of one person who has ever seen the movie ...

[Always dense, it took me all weekend wondering "but what does the title mean" before it occurred to me "Oh, maybe it has something to do with the movie". I meant to go back to the grid and see if there were any hints to Jimmy Rabbit but ...]

[Bill Bovard]

Damn, I got this one, in spite of very little knowledge of movies, but I forgot to submit.
Very easy, probably 2000 correct entries.

[Onaquest]

We thought it might be relevant that the meta grid answers came in pairs - giving you M & M (Eminem). Which, if intentional, was a nice touch. We watched the movie followed by a documentary on Eminem on Prime on Saturday. Loved the movie. Learned a lot about Eminem we didn’t know.

[ArthurD]

So about that title.... If you google "You'll figure it out 8 mile" you will find that it is a line that eminem's character says. Which I you had seen the movie you might remember. But as I only know of one person who has ever seen the movie ...

[Always dense, it took me all weekend wondering "but what does the title mean" before it occurred to me "Oh, maybe it has something to do with the movie". I meant to go back to the grid and see if there were any hints to Jimmy Rabbit but ...]

I just assumed the word “figure” in the puzzle title was an allusion to a Figure 8.

[Deb F]

So about that title.... If you google "You'll figure it out 8 mile" you will find that it is a line that eminem's character says. Which I you had seen the movie you might remember. But as I only know of one person who has ever seen the movie ...

[Always dense, it took me all weekend wondering "but what does the title mean" before it occurred to me "Oh, maybe it has something to do with the movie". I meant to go back to the grid and see if there were any hints to Jimmy Rabbit but ...]

I just assumed the word “figure” in the puzzle title was an allusion to a Figure 8.

I, too, was in the Figure 8 camp. I was afraid this one was too easy and thought I might be missing something.

Have a terrific week, Muggles.

[hoover]

I had no clue, except I knew it had something to do with MILE since there were a bunch of them in the grid. Fortunately, I knew that IMDB has an advanced title search. Plug in:

• Title name: MILE
• Title type: Movie
• Release date: 1999 to 2025 (since I didn't want to get trapped in the "is it the year the movie came out or the year the award was given" debate)
• Awards & recognition: Oscar-winning

See results: only one, "8 Mile" from 2002. Click on it because I can't believe it won an Oscar, count the occurrences of MILE in the grid, submit answer, done.

[Mirage]

We thought it might be relevant that the meta grid answers came in pairs - giving you M & M (Eminem). Which, if intentional, was a nice touch.

I also noticed that six letters of 33A oMEN above 40A anIME spelled Eminem and took that as confirmation.

[chocoholic]

Ashore
2021 Hill Family Estate Briarstone Merlot, from Atlas Peak at 1,200' elevation. "The 2021 Briarstone Merlot offer aromas of huckleberry, sandalwood, white sage, spicy plum and vanilla. The graceful entry and long, elegant full-bodied palate shows boysenberry and
raspberry flavors. This mountain Merlot has a long, elegant finish and long life ahead of
itself, that will only get better with age. "

You're killing me! Gave up wine and sweets for lent. I love the jammy taste of a good Merlot. And I love an oaky vanilla taste. Just two weeks until Easter.

[KayW]

This one came to me fairly easily - I've heard of but never seen the movie. At first I thought "Oscar winning" meant best movie. But the Oscar was for the song Lose Yourself by Eminem. MMMM solvers probably remember it as the answer to last year's mega-meta contest. Pete Muller did a wonderfully different take on the award-winning song for his reveal: